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In reply to the discussion: Hillary was liberal, Hillary IS Liberal [View all]cui bono
(19,926 posts)yeah, during her time in the Senate. When both parties had moved rightward. So the Cons were extreme right and the Dems were center. So really that doesn't mean a whole lot. She voted for the war when most of us knew it was a ruse.
Public statements mean nothing, as you pointed out in another thread, it's actions that mean something.
There is no way in hell Hillary is "as Elizabeth Warren and barely more moderate than Bernie Sanders", that is a pipe dream at best. She is tied to big business and banksters. Warren and Sanders continuously fight against them, standing up for working people. And seriously, Obama is a "hard core liberal"? No "hard core liberal" offers up SS, kills innocent people with drone strikes (more than Bush), prosecutes more whistleblowers than all other presidents combined, shuts out single-payer during ACA talks but holds secret backroom meetings with insurance companies, puts Wall Street in the White House, appoints Monsanto people to the EPA, calls war criminal torturers "patriots"...
"hard core liberal" my ass.
We need someone who really is liberal, such as Bernie Sanders, and who is actually on the left of the political spectrum, such as Bernie Sanders. There is no way that Hillary will ever be liberal, much less govern as one.